Intel’s Architecture Day 2018 this past Tuesday wasn’t just a CPU show. The graphics market is poised to be a significant component of Intel’s strategy going forward, and the company’s Gen 11 solution looks like it’ll be a potent improvement over Skylake. These improvements are long overdue. For most of the …

Virgin Galactic has been operating for a long time compared with other private spaceflight companies, but it had never actually flown in space before now. Well, the definition of space is somewhat hazy, but Virgin’s pilots are astronauts by at least one definition. This marks the highest altitude its spaceliner has …

There aren’t a lot of Hot Neptunes in the galaxy, and it’s not entirely clear why. A Hot Neptune is, as the name implies, a Neptune-sized planet orbiting within 1 AU of its host star. While we’ve definitely detected a few of them, there simply aren’t as many as we …

When it comes to baking, the most common ingredients that come to mind include butter, sugar, and flour — whether you’re making cake or cookies or bars, or even truffles and frostings!  Well today, I’m here to tell you that those ingredients are totally replaceable — Exhibit A:  this Chocolate Avocado …

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned new images captured on approach to its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, also known as Ultima Thule. This composite image of Ultima Thule was taken just 33 hours before the December 2 course-correction maneuver that fine-tuned New Horizons’ trajectory for …

Intel dropped a great deal of data at its Architecture Day, covering a huge variety of products and designs in a variety of markets. AI inference workloads, FPGA improvements, iGPU performance increases, 3D chip-stacking technology like Foveros — all of these were major topics of consideration. It’s been a long …

  There’s a controversy stirring once again with Windows 10 and its use of data collection. Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced a feature called Timeline, which allows you to jump back to work you were previously doing. You can also configure the feature to sync data from your PC to …

Amazon has taken a lot of heat from much of the tech press over its various facial recognition efforts. Most recently, this has come in the form of articles raising alarm bells about a patent application from its Ring subsidiary about using facial recognition in its doorbells to identify suspicious …

One of the tricky parts of keeping up with the innovation in AI hardware is that each vendor showcases applications and benchmarks that bring out the best in its own products. Since the field is relatively new, there haven’t been any good, broad, benchmarks to use for comparison. ImageNet is …

Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world, which gives it a lot of power over what people buy. It has occasionally used that power to push its own products over those of competitors. Okay, it actually does that all the time, but it took things a step further …